Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it