No possession is gratifying without a companion.

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.