When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.