Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

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

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.