Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.