I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

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.

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

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

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.