He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.