After death there is nothing.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

The best ideas are common property.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit