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.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.