I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them a man may live long yet live very little.
We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Not being able to govern events I govern myself.
Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.