In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

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

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

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.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

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.