Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

One may be humble out of pride.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.