Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.