He has no worse enemy than himself.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.