Courage is adversity's lamp.

We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected.

Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.