To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.