The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

My trade and art is to live.

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.