Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

Let brother help brother.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.