The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.