Despair is the greatest of our errors.

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

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.

The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

To possess taste, one must have some soul.