What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.