All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.