Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

When you give, give with joy and smiling.

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.