Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Speech is the index of the mind.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.