To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

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

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

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

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

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

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.