We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.