The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.

What else is nature but God?

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Every journey has an end.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power