If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.

Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.

If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.