“On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).”

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Plain as a pike-staff.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil’s back is spent under his belly.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances.

Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist?

Evil tongues never want a whet.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.

One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

You may trust the Lord too little, but you can never trust Him too much.

I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

They were pretty interesting about being interesting able to look at their children and think oh my children know things and they gave us a lot of sense of our own agency, and that may be a kind of a ruling class trait.