Despair is the greatest of our errors.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

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

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

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