The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.