Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

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.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.