Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

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.