Ambition is not a vice of little people.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.