Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.