Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.