I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!