It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.