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.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.