What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.
While there's life, there's hope.
I hate all children of precocious talent.
In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.
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.