Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.