Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?