Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
I am myself the matter of my book.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.