Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

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.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.