“Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all ple...”

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”

“He who travels much has this advantage over others that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other...”

“Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace”

“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.”

“No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.”