To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.