When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.