He lives well who is well hidden.

The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.