The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.