Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.