Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.