Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.