I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate.

It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.