Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

He who would remain honest ought to keep away want.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

He who fears not, is to be feared.

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.