Love can do much, but duty more.

A joy shared is a joy doubled.

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

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.