“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”