When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.