It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

One may be humble out of pride.