The world has no long injustices.

Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it.

Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it.