It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

I am never less alone than when alone.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.