If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.