For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

“Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures correspondingly erroneous.”

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”

"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."

"Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage."

"It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination."