A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.