Collectors are happy people.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.