Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

Action has magic, grace and power in it.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.