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A pedant is a precocious old man. - [Pedantry] Conscience is the living law, and honor is to this law what piety is to religion. - [Conscience] Constancy is a saint without a worshiper. - [Constancy] Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic, the other is effaced like a crayon drawing. - [Glory] How beautiful is victory, but how dear! - [Victory] How grand is victory, but how dear! - [Conquest] If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals. - [Morality] Ignorance is a prolonged infancy only deprived of its charm. - [Ignorance] It is not advice, but approval, which we crave. - [Advice] Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is the brother of angels. - [Jealousy] Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. - [Ingratitude] Morality has need, that it may be well received, of the mask of fable and the charm of poetry: truth pleases less when it is naked; and it is the only virgin whom we best like to see a little clothed. - [Truth] Oblivion is a second death, which great minds dread more than the first. - [Oblivion] Pleasure is the flower that fades; remembrance is the lasting perfume. - [Retrospection] Taste is the mind's tact. - [Taste] The greatest of all pleasures is to give pleasure to one whom we love. - [Pleasure] The higher we rise the more isolated we become; and all elevations are cold. - [Position] The warrior who cultivates his mind polishes his arms. - [Soldiers] The zero of friendship's thermometer. - [Politeness] There is enjoyment even in sadness; and the same souvenirs which have produced long regrets may also soften them. - [Sorrow] Wisdom no more consists in science than happiness in wealth. - [Wisdom]
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