The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.