Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

Without big words, how could many people say small things?

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.