Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are rooted in a strong and anchored in a powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies, which diverts us here and there.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.