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.

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

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

God sends the cold according to the coat.