Hope is the mother of faith.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.