The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.