Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.