Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.