There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
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.
Speech is but the incorporation of thought.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
We disjoint the mind like the body.
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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