We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.