God sends the cold according to the coat.

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it