Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.

We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.

What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.