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

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

Every movement reveals us.