The human mind ever longs for occupation.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.