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

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.