Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
Tenderness is the rest of passion.
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life’s evils, nor slight her blessings.
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
When we love, it is the heart that judges.
Ornaments were invented by modesty.
Questions show the mind’s range, and answers its subtlety.