Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

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.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.