There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.