The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.