Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.