We have power over nothing except our will.

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

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!