An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.