History is the teacher of life

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.