"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."
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."
"[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."
"Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement."