Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.