Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.