Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.