Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.