The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.