True love hates and will not bear delay.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.