If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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

All great men are partially inspired.