Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life’s evils, nor slight her blessings.
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
When we love, it is the heart that judges.
Ornaments were invented by modesty.
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
Questions show the mind’s range, and answers its subtlety.
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
The mind’s direction is more important than its progress.
Space is the stature of God.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
The breath of the mind is attention 128.