“We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.”

“There are those to whom one must advise madness.”

“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.”

“We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own”

“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”

“How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.”