To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.

Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.

We'll all be failures?""Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?

when we work together, we achieve more. Character is not a concept that is simply spoken about, but actually manifests itself through our actions.

I bend but I do not break.

I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.

Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.

I'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.