Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

There is no history; only biography.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.