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 leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.

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

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.