"Speech is the representation of the mind,..." - Quote by Aristotle

“No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.”

“The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.”

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”

“I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.”

“rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.”

“It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.”

“Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.”