Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.