Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking