He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?