It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.