There Is A Melancholy That Stems From

One Must Not Hope To Be More Than One Can Be.

The Success Of Many Books Is Due To The Affinity Between The Mediocrity Of The Author's Ideas And Those Of The Public.

Education Must Have Two Foundations --morality As A Support For Virtue, Prudence As A Defense For Self Against The Vices Of Others. By Letting The Balance Incline To The Side Of Morality, You Only Make Dupes Or Martyrs; By Letting It Incline To The Other, You Make Calculating Egoists.

Real Worth Requires No Interpreter: Its Everyday Deeds Form Its Emblem.

Hope Is But A Charlatan That Ceases Not To Deceive Us. For Myself Happiness Only Began When I Had Lost It.