The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

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

God sends the cold according to the coat.

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.