Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.