All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.