Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.