Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

Only the soul that loves is happy

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.