The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.