The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

Old friends are best.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.

While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.

In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.