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A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.