It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

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