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.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

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

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.