It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.