The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.