“Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.”

“Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.”

“Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.”

“Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie.(There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.)”

“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.”

“The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne”

“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.”

“Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. ”

“The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.”

“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.”

“My trade and art is to live.”