Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.

That favorite subject, Myself.

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.