Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.