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

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.