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.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

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

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

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.