To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.