Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

The part of life which we really live is short.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.