I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.