Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

When you give, give with joy and smiling.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.