We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

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

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.