I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.