If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.