Quote

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

There is no defense against criticism except obscurity

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay