God Creates The Animals, Man Creates Himself.

Nothing Can Contribute More To Peace Of Soul Than The Lack Of Any Opinion Whatever.

He Who Is Enamored Of Himself Will At Least Have The Advantage Of Being Inconvenienced By Few Rivals.

It Is In Most Cases More Difficult To Make Intelligent People Believe That You Are What You Are Not, Than Really To Become What You Would Appear To Be.

We Judge Nothing So Hastily As Character, And Yet There Is Nothing Over Which We Should Be More Cautious.... I Have Always Found That The So-called Bad People Improve On Closer Acquaintance, While The Good Fall Off.

The Motives That Lead Us To Do Anything Might Be Arranged Like The Thirty-two Winds And Might Be Given Names On The Same Pattern: For Instance, "bread-bread-fame" Or "fame-fame-bread."