I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.