There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Beauty is a gift of God.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.