Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.