Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.