Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.
People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.
I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.
It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.