Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.