Religion is the pious worship of God.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.