I may be no better, but at least I am different.
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.