Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

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.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.