A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

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