True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.