The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.