“It is the passions that do and undo everything.”
“A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.”
“If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.”
“There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.”
“If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.”
“A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.”