I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.