He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.