A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

Let every foot have its own shoe.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.