God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.