The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

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

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.