Nature alone is the master of true genius.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

I love those who can smile in trouble.

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!