Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?