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.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

The Germans, a race eager for war.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.