The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.