 We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. |
| 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. |
| It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. |
| The thing I fear most is fear. |
| The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. |
| It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. |
| It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. |
| Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. |
| Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. |
| He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. |
| In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. |
| Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. |
| 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. |
| Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. |
| Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. |
| Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. |
| My trade and art is to live. |
| If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. |
| I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. |
| Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. |
