The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.