Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Content thyself to be obscurely good.