All men are equal before God: wisdom, talents, and virtue are the only difference between them.

Ah, tenez, vous etes de la merde dans un bas de soie.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Les mortels sont egaux; ce n'est pas la naissance, C'est la seule vertu qui fait la difference.

How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness…

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous m…