"Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity,..." - Quote by Socrates

“Death offers mankind a full view of truth.”

“There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear”

“This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.”

“Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!”

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”

“Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.”

“... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.”

“The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.”

“The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.”