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

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.