Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.