Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

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

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.