The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
Your heart often knows things before your mind does.
There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm. . . these things are ever welcome.
The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.
For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.