Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

Expediency often silences justice.

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

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.