"Everything is in a state of flux on this earth. Nothing keeps a form for long, and our affections, which are attached to external things, pass and change as they do."

"Conscience! Conscience! Divine instinct, immortal and celestial voice, sure guide of a being ignorant and limited, but intelligent and free; infallible judge of good and evil, which makes man like unt…"

"It is not enough to be happy, one must also be useful."

"The only good political institutions are those which are capable of making a people change, and of inspiring in them a love of virtue."

"To be ourselves is the most difficult thing in life."