..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

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

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.