All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.