To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.