As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.