Patience is the art of hoping.
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Great thoughts come from the heart.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
When thought is too weak to be simply expressed it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.