We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

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

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.