Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.