Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. TIME. Time is the true Lethe, in which is engulphed the recollection of our sorrows. GUARDIANS. The best guardian for a woman’s happiness is her husband’s love, and for her honour her own affection. PASSION. Passion is a tyrant strong only through the weakness of his slaves. THE ART OF PLEASING. The most certain art of pleasing people with us, is to make them pleased with themselves. GRIEF. Grief lengthens our nights, but shortens our days. PLAGIARISMS. Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only reveal the poverty that compelled the loan. HAPPINESS. Happiness resembles the bird of paradise, which is said never to be seen but at a distance. FRIENDS AND ENEMIES. While we value the praise of our friends, we should not despise the censures of our enemies; as, from the malice of the latter, we frequently learn our faults, which the partiality of the former led them to overlook. SORROW. Sorrow sets her seal on the brows of those she has stricken; and, like freemasons, they know each other by a sign, unintelligible to the uninitiated, even when pleasure spreads her fascinations around them. SELF-KNOWLEDGE. “Rentrez en vous-même, vous y trouverez les Dieux,” was the advice of an ancient philosopher. How few have ever entered into the depth of their own minds, which are to them as undiscovered springs in the abysses of the earth! Enter into your own mind, and if you find not the gods there, you may, by constant examination and correction, render it worthy of becoming their residence. CONVERSATION. Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies. MISFORTUNE. Misfortune, though difficult to be borne, has some advantages: it precludes us from fear of the future, proves the sincerity of friends, and even reconciles us to the approach of death; while happiness, however grateful during its brief tenure, is too frequently poisoned by the dread of its interruption. HOME. The heart turns to home, even as the tortoise, wherever it may be placed, turns its head towards its native element, and tries to regain it. POLITICS. Politics is a science, which no one believes those who differ with him to understand. PASSION. Passion conducts to vice, and sentiment leads to virtue. MISTAKES.