Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.