For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.