Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

Example has far more followers than reason.