Truth is its own reward.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.