“To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.”

“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”

“All art is but imitation of nature.”

“Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.”

“The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.”

“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.”

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

“I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.”

“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”

“Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.”

“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.”

“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”

“Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”

“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.”

“Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.”