The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

To understand via the heart is not to understand.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.