Courage is adversity's lamp.

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

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.