If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.