Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.