I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Piety softens all that courage bears.
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.