There is nothing more remarkable in the life of Socrates than that he found time in his old age to learn to dance and play on instruments and thought it time well spent.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach.

It happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me? ~ Essays

The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Those things are dearest to us that cost us most.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages. ~ Essays

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.