What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

Like readily consorts with like.

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul