Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

Man is a social animal.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.