Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

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 [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

It needs courage to be afraid.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.