There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.