It needs courage to be afraid.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

Every movement reveals us.