I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.