The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.