It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.