Who has more leisure than a worm?

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

A hated government does not long survive.