Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.