The Counsels Of Old Age Give Light

When We Feel That We Lack Whatever Is Needed To Secure Someone Else's Esteem, We Are Very Close To Hating Him

A Man Who Love Only Himself And His Pleasures Is Vain, Presumptuous, And Wicked Even From Principle.

We Ought Never To Be Afraid To Repeat An Ancient Truth, When We Feel That We Can Make It More Striking By A Neater Turn, Or Bring It Alongside Of Another Truth, Which May Make It Clearer, And Thereby Accumulate Evidence. It Belongs To The Inventive Faculty To See Clearly The Relative State Of Things, And To Be Able To Place Them In Connection; But The Discoveries Of Ages Gone By Belong Less To Their First Authors Than To Those Who Make Them Practically Useful To The World.

We Discover In Ourselves What Others Hide From Us And We Recognize In Others What We Hide From Ourselves.

In Order To Protect Himself From Force, Man Was Obliged To Submit To Justice. Justice Or Force: He Was Compelled To Choose Between The Two Masters, So Little Are We Made To Be Independent.