All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.

Man is neither angel nor beast.