A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.