"Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality."

"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory."

"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."

"All a man can betray is his conscience."

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."

"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."