Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

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.

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.