A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

There is no object that we see no action that we do; no good that we enjoy no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action

Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they are always there

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man