Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.