Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.