Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.