We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.