Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.