The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

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

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

My art and profession is to live.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.