The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.