A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.