It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.