In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.