This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.