Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

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

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.