Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.