Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.