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

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.