Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
In rising sighs and falling tears.
An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.