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.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.