Fortune Favors The Audacious.

...it Is A Sneaking Piece Of Cowardice For Authors To Put Feigned Names To Their Works, As If, Like Bastards Of Their Brain, They Were Afraid To Own Them.

Nowadays The Rage For Possession Has Got To Such A Pitch That There Is Nothing In The Realm Of Nature, Whether Sacred Or Profane, Out Of Which Profit Cannot Be Squeezed.

It Is An Unscrupulous Intellect That Does Not Pay To Antiquity Its Due Reverence.

If You Look At History You'll Find That No State Has Been So Plagued By Its Rulers As When Power Has Fallen Into The Hands Of Some Dabbler In Philosophy Or Literary Addict.

Great Eagerness In The Pursuit Of Wealth, Pleasure, Or Honor, Cannot Exist Without Sin.