I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

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.