To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.
Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.