My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.