It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

Habit is everything, even in love.

Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.

We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn, or bring it alongside of another truth, which may make it clearer, and thereby accumulate evidence. It belongs to the inventive faculty to see clearly the relative state of things, and to be able to place them in connection; but the discoveries of ages gone by belong less to their first authors than to those who make them practically useful to the world.

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

Despair is the greatest of our errors.