The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

He that begins to live, begins to die.

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.