Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.