It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.