There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Pardon is granted to necessity.

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.