The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.