By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

I am then never less alone than when alone