Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.