“There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.”

“It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.”

“The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.”

“A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.”

“The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.”

“In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.”

“What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.”

“We are anthill men upon an anthill world.”