We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.