For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.
The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.