To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!'

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.