Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

Philosophy is the true mother of science.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.