There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.