Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

Wisdom is infused into every form.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.