It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

He who suffers, remembers.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.