Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.