Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.