The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.