A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.