The world always looks straights ahead; as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself; I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward; as for me, I roll about in myself.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

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