“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”

“Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.”

“The triumph of hope over experience.”

“Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.”

“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”

“Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.”

“Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues, because unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.”