I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.

Every movement reveals us.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.