What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

Life is an incurable disease.