Francois Fenelon

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. ”

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ”

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. ”

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ”

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. ”

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. ”

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ”