They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

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.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.