We have power over nothing except our will.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.