Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?