He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.