It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.
He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.
There is nothing in which a horse’s power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.
A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
To know how to live is my trade and my art.
A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.
I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.
I would have every man write what he knows and no more.
It’s not victory if it doesn’t end the war.
I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?