Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

We pardon as long as we love.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.