“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”

“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”

“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”

“Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”

“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.”

“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”