I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.