There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

By doubting we come at truth.