The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

The religions we call false were once true.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

A nation never falls but by suicide.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.