Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.