How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

Virtue is the health of the soul.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Before using a fine word, make a place for it.