Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.

Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.