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

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

The thing I fear most is fear.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever.