Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

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