Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

While we teach, we learn.

Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.