Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.