A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.