Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.