General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Imitation cannot go above its model.
Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.