Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

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

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.