I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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.

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

We all are imbued with the love of praise.