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

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

One may be humble out of pride.