Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.