A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.