Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

While we wait for life, life passes

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.