Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

One may be humble out of pride.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.