There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.