Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

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