A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?

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

Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.