Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

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