Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

The thing I fear most is fear.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.