The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.