Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.