To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.