If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

We have power over nothing except our will.