A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.