The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
The thing I fear most is fear.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.