Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.