Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'