A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

What is permissible is not always honorable.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.