He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

He who reforms, God assists.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.