Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.