In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
Nature abhors annihilation.
Reason should direct, and appetite obey.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
They condemn what they do not understand.
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.