My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

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

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.