Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being.