“No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.”

“Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.”

“History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.”

“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”

“Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into”

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”

“A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.”