But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

He who love touches walks not in darkness.