No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.