To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.