There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.