The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.