All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue..
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks..
When Apollo 13 appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the phi….
The best interpreter of the law is custom..
I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write..
I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually followin….
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate..
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humani….
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it..
Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all..
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become..
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indee….
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals..
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these….
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust..
Where a man can live, he can also live well..
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers..
Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfe….
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another..
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics..
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes..