Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

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

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share of heels, not for his fine collar; a hawk for her wing, not for her jesses and bells. Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own? He has a great train, a beautiful palace, so much credit, so many thousand pounds a year, and all these are about him, but not in him.