I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.