Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents