On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?