No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.