To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.
I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.
Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.