In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very…

It is a mark of prudence never to trust wholly in those things which have once deceived us.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more then his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other…

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends…

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation…