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.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.