Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.