Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
It is the acme of life to understand life.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.