If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

There is no power greater than true affection.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.