I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

He loves little who loves by rule.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.