Time is the herald of truth.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men