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.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

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.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.