"A man often imagines that he acts,..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.”

“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”

“We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.”

“It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.”

“There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.”

“The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way”

“Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.”

“The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.”

“In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.”