Necessity Is A Violent School-mistress.

I Am Much Afraid That We Shall Have Very Greatly Hastened The Decline And Ruin Of The New World By Our Contagion, And That We Willhave Sold It Our Opinions And Our Arts Very Dear.

There Is Not Much Less Vexation In The Government Of A Private Family Than In The Managing Of An Entire State.

Every One Is Well Or Ill At Ease, According As He Finds Himself! Not He Whom The World Believes, But He Who Believes Himself To Be So, Is Content; And In Him Alone Belief Gives Itself Being And Reality

It Is An Absolute Perfection And Virtually Divine To Know How To Enjoy Our Being Rightfully.

It Needs Courage To Be Afraid.