The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.