reflection Quotes

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Never confuse motion with action.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Observe all men, thyself most.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.