Well I've had a happy life.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.

The more we do, the more we can do.

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

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