The Perfect Joys Of Heaven Do Not

It Is Better To Be Able Neither To Read Nor Write Than To Be Able To Do Nothing Else.

The Great Have Private Feelings Of Their Own, To Which The Interests Of Humanity And Justice Must Curtsy. Their Interests Are So Far From Being The Same As Those Of The Community, That They Are In Direct And Necessary Opposition To Them; Their Power Is At The Expense Of Our Weakness; Their Riches Of Our Poverty; Their Pride Of Our Degradation; Their Splendour Of Our Wretchedness; Their Tyranny Of Our Servitude.

To The Proud The Slightest Repulse Or Disappointment Is The Last Indignity.

The Only True Retirement Is That Of The Heart; The Only True Leisure Is The Repose Of The Passions. To Such Persons It Makes Little Difference Whether They Are Young Or Old; And They Die As They Have Lived, With Graceful Resignation.

If We Are Long Absent From Our Friends, We Forget Them; If We Are Constantly With Them, We Despise Them.