In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.