Imitation is suicide.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.