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.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.