Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

For who is pleased with himself.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.