The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.
Do what is right, though the world may perish.
[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.
Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.
Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.