~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.