All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.