Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.