Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.