Precaution is better than cure.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.