Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.