We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

The world always looks straights ahead; as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself; I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward; as for me, I roll about in myself.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.