I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

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

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.