We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.