We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.

Those who fear men like laws.

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

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.

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.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

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.