Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

Every journey has an end.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain