We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.