Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.