Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

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.

There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.