A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.