He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.