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

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.