One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.