Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.