We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.