There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

We must be doing something to be happy.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

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

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.