Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.