Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.