Philosophy is the health of the mind.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!