A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.