One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.

Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.