Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

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

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

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