No possession is gratifying without a companion.

Time discovers truth.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Necessity is stronger than duty.