Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Philosophy is doubt.
There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene.
The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to...
Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself.
The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.
We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable ac...
We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.
There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger
Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.