The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.