As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.