Be true to your own highest convictions.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life