A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

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.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?