It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?