I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.