He Who Hid Well, Lived Well.

Common Sense Is The Best Distributed Thing In The World, For We All Think We Possess A Good Share Of It.

Everybody Thinks Himself So Well Supplied With Common Sense That Even Those Most Difficult To Please. . . Never Desire More Of It Than They Already Have.

Wonder Is The First Of All The Passions.

Instead I Ought To Be Grateful To Him Who Never Owed Me Anything For Having Been So Generous To Me, Rather Than Think That He Deprived Me Of Those Things Or Has Taken Away From Me Whatever He Did Not Give Me.

The First Precept Was Never To Accept A Thing As True Until I Knew It As Such Without A Single Doubt.