The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
There is strong shadow where there is much light.
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.