When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.