The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
We are easily duped by those we love.
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.