power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?
there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
nothing in life is more corroding than habit.
The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.
the best of all good friends is pride.