You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.