A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

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.

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.