What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

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

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

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.