Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.