What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.