Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?