Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

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

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Philosophy is the art of living.