Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

The history of mankind is his character.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.