I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

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

Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice