Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.