Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.