Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?