False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

Be my brother or I will kill you.

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.