Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.