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

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.