Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
Whatever begins, also ends.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
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.
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.