If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.