A person's life persuades better than his word.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

We become just by the practice of just actions.

Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.