Crimes generally punish themselves.

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.