If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.
If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
If a clever man commits a folly, it is not a small one.
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
History-writing is a way of getting rid of the past.
Heavens! what a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
He is the happiest man who can set the end of his life in connection with the beginning.
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns so soon to hatred.
Great passions are hopeless diseases. That which could cure them is the first thing to make them really dangerous.
God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?