He loves little who loves by rule.

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

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

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