A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

What else is nature but God?

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.