Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason.

A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

Hope is the mother of faith.

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbor. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.

What is reading but silent conversation?