If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.