Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.