Hope is the best possession.

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.