How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.