Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.