All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.