If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

It is a great thing to know your vices.