Serenity

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked

When earth breaks up and heaven expands, how will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands?

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason

I am not the least afraid to die

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose

For every 60 seconds of anger, you lose one minute of happiness

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.