If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.