Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.