Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

The joy of life is variety.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.