I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.