Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.