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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
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"Wisdom begins in wonder."
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
"Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue."
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
"No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems."
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
"Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change."
"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."