A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged

There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.

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?

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.