Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.