If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

Experience is only half of experience.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.