Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them