Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.

Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.