It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.