Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.