Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

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.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.