It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.