[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.