He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

God: personified incomprehensibility.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.