There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.