He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.