Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.