"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."

"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."

"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."

"We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves"

"One promises much, to avoid giving little."

"Patience is the art of hoping."

"Great thoughts come from the heart."

"Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization."

"The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures"

"Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy"

"Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that one appreciates them."

"Great success is commoner than great abilities."

"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."

"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."

"There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe."

"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."

"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

"Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers."

"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."

"Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless."

"Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice"

"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."

"The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter."

"Action makes more fortune than caution"

"Give help rather than advice."

"Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice."

"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."

"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."

"We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves."

"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

"Those who can bear all can dare all."