Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

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!

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.