While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.