Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.