Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.