The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.