Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it.