Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.