Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Time itself is an element.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.