A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.