I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

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

Be the flame, not the moth.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.