Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Patience is the art of hoping.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

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.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

Consciousness of our strength increases it.

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.