We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.

As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.