One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.