A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

The thing I fear most is fear.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in