My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
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.