The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.