Work is often the father of pleasure.
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.