There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.