Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

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

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Men are nothing until they are excited.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.