Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.