I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.