Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.