Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
Love - a grave mental disease.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.