“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest”

“Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies”

“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty”

“Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves”

“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness”

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison ”