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.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.