An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.