Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.