Not everyone can be an orphan.
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.