"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the b…"

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"What does it mean to be a philosopher? It means to be able to say, 'I have seen the world, and I have found it good.'"

"Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."