Where fear is, happiness is not.

There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.