All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?