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

• They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
• All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
• All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
• We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
• At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
• It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
• We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
• Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
• If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
• The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.