To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

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.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

I see the cure is not worth the pain.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.