“Knowledge exists, and good will exists; but both remain impotent until they possess the proper organs for making themselves heard.”

“Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.”

“Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.”

“Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?”

“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”

“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”

“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge”