To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

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

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.