The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.