Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
I bend, but I do not break.
What God does, He does well.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.