We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

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

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.