We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

The part of life which we really live is short.