First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

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

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.