As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.