Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.