“We need but little learning to live happily.”

“It is an ill wind that does not blow some good. For example, it is well to be born in a decadent age; for one may obtain a reputation for virtue at a bargain price.”

“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”

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

“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.”

“Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”

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