This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.