When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.