What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.