A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.