Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.