To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Well I've had a happy life.

Hope is the best possession.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.