No one loves the man whom he fears.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms