One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil; it is the scene of good or evil, as you make it.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

The covetous man fares worse with his passion than the poor, and the jealous man than the cuckold.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out, not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also his life itself to obtain it.