When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

We have power over nothing except our will.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

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

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.