A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.