I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.