Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

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.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.