Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.