Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?