Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.