"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."
"We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there."
"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."
"It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance."
"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."