If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

The more laws, the less justice.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.