I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

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

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification