The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
When we love, it is the heart that judges.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.