Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.

In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of life. To live like a philosopher is to live, not foolishly, like other men, but wisely and according to universal laws.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.