Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.