There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

The joy of life is variety.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.