I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Everything transitory is but an image.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.