We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.

We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.

For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.