I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

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.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.