Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?