"I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest."

"How can I be a good man if I don't know how to be a bad one?"

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

"The strongest are those who are most alone."

"How odd and inexplicable are the paths of destiny. What intention did Providence have by ruining the one who it has raised up, and raising up the one who it has ruined?"