To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.
The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.