It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

The only security is courage.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.