I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.