There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.