The woman that deliberates is lost.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.