Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.