We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.