Jean de La Bruyere

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge it by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.

No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honors are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor judgment to hold their tongues.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.