I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.