You talk one way, you live another.

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.