I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.