Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.
No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.