It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world..

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear,….

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have neve….

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plun….

Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason,….

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions..

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness..

If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustai….

I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!.

I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unre….

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!.

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love..

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in tha….

At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling th….

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction..

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue..

O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishmen….

There is no accounting for tastes..

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves..