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

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.