The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.