While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

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

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.