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.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.