The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

Habit is second nature.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.

Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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.