Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

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

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.