“And, pleased th’ Almighty’s orders to perform,Rides in the whirl-wind, and directs the storm.”

“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.”

“I am...I am constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.”

“The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”

“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”