Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

Rank is a great beautifier.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.