Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.