Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.