Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.

The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.

Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice